Addressing institutional potential loss of records and knowledge in Africa: The case of the ECA institutional repository – A knowledge base on African socio-economic development

Onyancha, Irene; Al-Awah, Ahmed; Cole, Florie

doi:10.1080/10572317.2012.10762928

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“…Institutional Repository (IR) is an online system that can be used to collect, preserve and disseminate knowledge asset of academic and research institutions. The benefit of IR can be described in three perspectives [6,7]. Firstly, from the view of institution, it will be a knowledge asset management platform in order to assist the institution in setting up a centralized system to collect, organize, showcase, preserve and disseminate its knowledge in a systematic manner.…”

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Multi-Platform Institutional Repository

Roengniransathit

Taweepworadej

Polpinit

2014

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This paper introduces an alternative approach of how to build the institutional repository, the multi-platform IR, for research institutes whose internal research units have existing IRs. Firstly, it describes the strategy of IR that harvests data from existing various-platform local repositories, allows researchers to manually input their publication data, provides administrative tool to manipulate the IR database, and includes output interface and search tool for end user. Then the program based on Drupal framework using real data from libraries of Khon Kaen University is provided to demonstrate the investigated strategy. The program perfectly performs all required tasks and could potentially be an example for future IRs of research institutes who would like to consolidate and aggregate existing local IRs.

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confidence: 99%